Article: Last chance for Afghanistan?

THE FAILED Communist coup in Kabul last month caused an resistance. A year ago it looked as if the mujahedin had defeated the Soviets and their puppet regime. Now U.S. diplomats and policy-makers are openly wondering if this should be the last year of American support for the mujahedin. How did this happen? And does Washington have the will to remedy the part of the problem it caused? The coup, which had been scheduled for late March, was forced to begin two weeks prematurely. News of it had leaked to the KGB, who put Moscow's puppet in Kabul, Najib, on the alert. The coup's organizer, Defense Minister Shahnawaz Tanai, a hard-line Communist of the Khalq faction, in turn ...

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